Fifa World Cup 2018 and 2022 on SRG channels
More than two years before the next World Cup, SRG has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights to the two subsequent Fifa finals: All matches of the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be broadcast live and in studio and magazine shows on SRG's TV channel chains in the usual framework, as was the case for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
This also includes all radio and online rights. As a member of the guarantor group, i.e. the "medium and small nations" of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU, association of European public service broadcasters) based in Geneva, SRG was able to (co-)acquire the exclusive media exploitation rights of the two soccer World Cups at reasonable conditions, according to a statement by SRG on Presseportal.ch. The EBU had signed a contract with Fifa for the comprehensive rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cup for a total of 37 members. The rights for the "big" territories such as Germany, Italy, France, Spain and England will be negotiated individually and directly by Fifa.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the amount of the license fee.
